Afternoon.
Sorry, I'm a bit behind as life is busy.
Lists I think you asked about my house not smelling of dogs, sorry if it was someone else. It helps because my floors are wood and tile. I vacuum at least once a day. Floors are mopped every other (with floor wipes on my hands and knees, this is true...!). I wash their bedding weekly, bowls are washed a lot and I Febreze any chairs or sofas they sit on. They are allowed on the beds, but only with the dog blankets on. They get completely washed after every walk too. I am so anal about dog smells. 
Fluffy I think I prefer the Pixie glow tonic, despite the price and an oil based cleanser prior to that. I'm willing to try the Superdrug stuff though, it's cruelty free isn't it? Not getting on with Nip and Fab tbh. I'm looking at the ethical side now too.
Good saving on the au pair Mammy.
Sunny DS has been under twice, both around age 7/8 I think. The staff are so fantastic and he really was fine both times. Your DS will be.
It's an interesting one about anxiety. I often wonder why I deal with the shit in my life well overall. I had a mother that was/is tremendously unkind (do you remember last year when she told me I was a worthless piece of shit?), my parents divorced with a shed load of anger, I had an unwanted pregnancy in difficulty circumstances when I was 20 and a DH with bi-polar. Yeah, I have my moments but in general I deal with it all okay. And you guys were fab when I did get quite low last year and thank you for that. I've decided that part of it is because I'm quite logical and can process stuff as things that have happened but will not define me (or that I'm a stubborn cow!) and also I just reckon our brains are wired in different ways and that's just nature. And that's not a brag, I can see how MH affects a person, I live with it daily. Or maybe I'll go 'POP' someday, who knows?!!
I'd like to know why folk comfort eat, or have OCD or whatever. It's such an interesting thing, how our brains work.
I'm not better or worse than anyone else, but I'm really thankful to be able to be able to cope as I do. I have every sympathy with other folk, I absolutely do and strongly feel that MH needs to be given the same priority as physical, thankfully that's changing.
My only thing I get anxious about it driving in unfamiliar surroundings but I take the sat nav and that's diminished massively and I can always ask.
Exercise and eating being completely on point make a difference to me personally. I'm crap if I can't run. And actually, we don't have money issues. That one fact in itself makes an incredibly difference to MH I think.
Yesterday was £25 in Aldi
£5 - today at fitness class.
Mushroom bourguinon (sp?) yesterday with sweet potato and green beans was amazing. A Tesco recipe, and bloody good.
Off to walk the dogs, then clean them, then clean them some more ha ha!!